Last Updated: January 05, 2023, 17:01 IST
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Delhi reported 4,469 dengue circumstances in 2022, 53 per cent lower than the previous yr, in response to information shared by the town’s civic physique on Monday.
Delhi reported 4,469 dengue circumstances in 2022, 53 per cent lower than the previous yr, in response to information shared by the town’s civic physique on Monday.
Till December 31 final yr, dengue claimed 9 lives. In 2021, Delhi recorded 9,613 circumstances, the very best since 2015. It additionally reported 23 deaths — the very best since 2016.
Cases of vector-borne illnesses akin to dengue and malaria are normally reported between July and November, generally stretching until mid-December.
In 2022, the town recorded 23 dengue circumstances in January, 16 in February, 22 in March, 20 in April, 30 in May, 32 in June, 26 in July, and 75 in August, in response to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) report issued on Monday.
The variety of circumstances surged manifolds after August. The highest variety of circumstances in 2022 was lodged in November (1,420) adopted by 1,238 in October whereas 874 circumstances have been recorded in December.
In 2015, Delhi witnessed an enormous dengue outbreak, with the variety of circumstances crossing 10,600 in October, the worst since 1996.
The metropolis additionally recorded 263 circumstances of malaria and 48 circumstances of chikungunya in 2022, in response to the MCD report.
Symptoms of vector-borne illnesses embrace excessive fever, headache, rash, muscle and joint ache, just like that of COVID-19, which additionally embrace fever or chills, muscle or physique aches, fatigue and headache amongst others, officers of the MCD’s well being division mentioned.
The official information confirmed that 4,726 dengue circumstances have been recorded in Delhi in 2017, 2,798 in 2018, 2,036 in 2019, 1,072 in 2020, and 9,613 in 2021.
The vector-borne illness claimed ten lives every in 2016 and 2017, 4 in 2018, two in 2019, one in 2020, and 23 in 2021.
The MCD report said that breeding of mosquito larvae has been discovered at 1,71,334 households this yr until December 23.
Authorities have issued 1,22,282 authorized notices for mosquitogenic situations, and 45,934 prosecutions have been launched up to now.
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